Get answers to common technical questions about logs for
Rackspace Private Cloud Powered By OpenStack (RPCO) v12.

What log analysis and visualization tools are available?

By default, Kibana is installed with a dashboard that resembles OpenStack
dashboard. Charts that reflect the frequency of errors and warnings are
included. Users can filter logs by the request UUID, and can display and
graph requests per second by type and the return codes for each API
service.

Rsyslog and Logstash are also available.

How does Support interact with ElasticSearch?

The es2unix
package is installed on all infrastructure nodes, which enables
Support to interact with ElasticSearch directly.

How do I manage the MySQL database size to prevent the
``django_sessions`` table from filling up with older and expired logs?

To clear expired logs from the django_sessions table:

On the deployment host, change into the playbooks directory.

Run the following command, replacing TARGET with the name of the
horizon containers: